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Episode 241: There Is No Twitter, Only X feat. Ryan Broderick

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The Chaos of Twitter

Because of network effects, it's normally near impossible for new social media platforms to challenge the dominant ones. Travis: "I don't know how successful turning Twitter into the everything app where you're messaging and you're calling because nobody I know follows any of their real life friends on Twitter"

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Speaker 3
Yeah, and I don't know how successful turning Twitter into the everything app where you're messaging and you're calling because nobody I know follows any of their real life friends on Twitter. It's like, no, no, no, that world is separate. That's in your WhatsApp maybe. On Twitter, it's just acquaintances and online friends. You don't want to be calling them and you don't want to be video chatting them. So I don't know, I think Elon maybe just doesn't really understand what Twitter is for.
Speaker 4
I mean, perhaps he's just an immense dumbass.
Speaker 1
So yeah, all of this has been pretty crazy, especially since once upon a time I thought like the people who had quasi-monopolies in social media were just gonna stick around forever. Because of network effects, it's normally near impossible for new social media platforms to challenge the dominant ones. You know, you may not like the people who run the platform, but no one's really willing to abandon their online friends to try something new and get less and worse content. Yes, but what if everyone on that network's brains just literally run out of their nose, just splattering all over their keyboard?
Speaker 4
You didn't count on that, did you, Travis?
Speaker 1
I didn't, I didn't. But also, I mean, this has led to new opportunities, you know, because of the chaos of Twitter, which this has included limiting the amount of tweets people can see in a day, it's left openings for competing micro-blogging platforms. There's the open source Mastodon. I like that conceptually. I have an account, but it's just, I don't know, it's a little clunky for me, I gotta say. There's also Blue Sky. This is a project that's actually spun out of Twitter and happens to have former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on its board. Now I've been using that one most often. That one has the most old Twitter-like feel. It's just sort of like fun and jokey and not as many extremists and Nazis and QAnon followers are on that one quite
Speaker 4
yet.

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